MORE GERMAN HISTORY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 228, 5 March 1915, Page 2

MORE GERMAN HISTORY.

BREMEN'S HATRED. It is I)ut natural that tlie German Ocean ports, and CBpu;:a"y Hamburg ami Bremen, should give loudest expression to tlio hatred" of that' Power which they believe to be responsive for the war. More than inland places they quite early began to feel the hand of England's power at their throats. Their quays and warehouses are desolate, and the proud argosies which' used to sail from their nvors are either hopelessly locked up in neutral harbors or being dispsed or 111 urfKsn auctlonloom.i. The President the Bremen Chamber of Commerce, Herr Lolnnann, has been lecturing to h; s melancholy fellow-citizens about the iniquities of England, and lias utetred many notable things. England, he ' said, began this war in pursuance of hor traditional policy of opening hostilities against her nearest mercantile rival, A long historical excursus proved to the entire satisfaction of the audience how true this was. In the midst ol peace England and licr Allies fell on Germany, but the people of the Empire have shown their strength and have swept their frontier's free of the enemy. No panic has been seen in any. part of tlio country, no bank lias closed Its doors, the rate" of discount is five per cent., and there are one hundred sterling in gold in the Imperial Hank. Loans have been subscribed by over a million snbaenbors.

GERMANY ALL OVER In England, on tlio contrary, only 100,000 subscribers were forthcoming, and it is clear that not the nation, but j the Bank of England alone, subscribed to the recent loan.- If the German people, says Herr Lohmann, are only carevji w '" ' le a^'e to surmount every difliculty regarding the necessities 0 f life. The closing of Germany to foreign trade only injures those countries which sup' ply Germany with raw materials for her manufactures, There arc gullieinnt raw materials ill the country to lasl. ror scveral years. According to Herr lolimann, Lord iisficr In 183!) states to Mir, Ha-me Conferenco that where the interests of England were In question lih was prepared to send international agreements to the devil. That i 8 why England is treating neutrals as enemies.

HANDS iACKOSS THE SEA. England (aays the sage "Lohmann) holds up hospital ships, sinks German ships m neutral waters, loads trading steamers with hundreds of German women and children from West African colI onie* and sendii them to England, and i keeps them In the most piteous and unI ]l y«enic condition, and under the "com- | mand of negroes. On land England follows the same tactics in her concentration camps. She uses dum-dum bullets, <lrop a T>6mbs on unprotected towns like Freiburg, Dusseldorf, and the Frisian island of Langcoog, confiscates the goods and fortunes of Germans in England, and, in repealing the patent laws "robs Germans of their intellectual property. All this must be expiated. For one thing only Germans must be grateful to England. She lias rudely stired up Germany from a threatened trophy of the powers of her people. England has caused Germany to show her true greatnes.s